United States presidential election, 1932

The United States presidential election, 1932 was held on 6 November 1932. The incumbent Republican Party president Herbert Hoover ran for re-election with Charles Curtis as his running mate, opposing Democratic Party nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt and his running mate John Nance Garner. Roosevelt promised a "New Deal" for the American people, and he campaigned on the failures of the Hoover administration, which had plunged America into the Great Depression. Roosevelt won the election with 472 electoral votes to Hoover's 59 votes, and his party would dominate American politics until 1952.